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Billboard hand-painted by Christian communities of Nicaragua to welcome the Pope.— "Welcome to Free Nicaragua; Thanks to God and the Revolution. " stories of his life were modeled on a real historical figure-one of the innumerable self-proclaimed "messiahs" of the times. Some elements of the biblical tale are obvious fabrications—the Bethlehem nativity, for example-but scholars have pointed to other reported episodes that have a degree of historical and logical consistency that lends plausibility to the existence of a historical Jesus.
A messiah, according to the common understanding of the times, was a warrior-king whose mission was to overthrow the existing rulers and establish the kingdom of god on earth. The many messianic movements of the time, these scholars explain, were motivated by